Chipotle’s testing an avocado-peeling robot and an automated bowl assembly line

The Autocado is in your Chipotle, peeling your avocados. | Screenshot: Autocado Chipotle has a new robot called the Autocado with a key assignment: peeling avocados. The prototype machine “cuts, cores, and peels avocados” by the case before workers mash them up for guacamole in a process Chipotle is describing as using cobots (collaborative robots).
The company says the robot being tested in a store at 20972 Magnolia St. in Huntington Beach, California, will help free employees up fo